I recently came across Goblin and suddenly realized why KES’s couples never made sense to me: there’s no substance to back the relationship, just something “mysterious” called “fate” 0.o

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    I feel like this is a lot of kdramas though. When the adults don’t have substance to build a romance, there’s suddenly a hidden childhood connection which then a switch flips and their adult selves will have such a deeeeep love that go back ages.

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    This was my big eureka moment coming from last week’s episodes of the King!! Hahaha

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    I loved Goblin so much, but the OTP didn’t just make sense.
    Gong Yoo is an amazing actor that can make any role work and also Kim Go Eun did a good job, but… it didn’t make sense, they had nothing they shared (but loneliness, true), and I was weird watching an adult man (who had lived for centuries) falling for a school girl.
    As for the rest of her dramas, I did like the way she handled OTP relation in DOTS (leaving aside all the nonsense) and in Gentleman’s Dignity (leaving aside all the patronizing, that was “normal” almost ten years ago).

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      I think KES is good with writing quirky banters and building emotion in small cuts. The problem is when you put the pieces together, they don’t make sense at all. What I imagine is that she takes notes of the small ideas that she comes up with everyday, when she’s writing a drama she just flips through her notes and picks out the ones she likes. I bet she has assistants too and she might have hired different for each dramas. Maybe that’s why her dramas are inconsistent.

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    True but that’s what most kdramas do.

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